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Empires of vice : the rise of opium prohibition across Southeast Asia /

"Though today opiates are highly controlled substances and generally viewed as menaces to society, the opium trade was once licit and profitable, both for merchants and for the governments to which they paid taxes. During the late nineteenth century, British and French colonies in Southeast Asi...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Kim, Diana S., 1982- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Collection:Histories of economic life.
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Table des matières:
  • A Shared Turn : Opium and the Rise of Prohibition
  • The Different Lives of Southeast Asia's Opium Monopolies
  • "Morally Wrecked" in British Burma, 1870s-1890s
  • Fiscal Dependency in British Malaya, 1890s-1920s
  • Disastrous Abundance in French Indochina, 1920s-1940s
  • Colonial Legacies.